Our (mis)perceptions

The ongoing problem of food security

More than 10 million Kenyans countrywide including farmers, pastoralists and fishers, whether living in urban or rural areas and are young or old experience routine hunger and inability to access adequate food.

These women and men need to be part of the solution if we are going to end chronic food insecurity in our country.

Structural and technical explanations for food insecurity

We need to think critically about purely structural and technical reasons of why food insecurity and chronic hunger are a problem. Yes, they are part of the problem, but surely if the good intentions set out in our legislation were implemented, food security would have been solved by now?

Structural Issues

Constraints faced by women, by virtue of their gender.

Access to land and the growing threat of real estate development.

Limited post-harvest management facilities, leading to high food waste.

Weak co-ordination and collaboration between the central government and counties.

Poor transport infrastructure.

Low state investment into demand driven research and extension services.

Lack of irrigation and over-reliance on rain-fed agriculture.

Technical Issues

Climate change.

Poor quality seeds and protection of local seed systems.

Reliance on chemical fertilisers.

Soil degradation.

Polluted oceans and lakes.

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